Clarification sought on Roscommon hospital

Chairman of the Dáil Health Committee Denis Naughten has written to the Health Service Executive and contacted the Health Minister seeking clarification on the future of services at Roscommon County Hospital.

The contacts came after claims that the Emergency Department at the hospital is to be closed from 8pm to 8am daily and on weekends from 11 July.

Mr Naughten's intervention follows a report by the Roscommon Hospital Action Committee that the hospital's ambulance service had been informed at the weekend that their services in Roscommon would be reconfigured from 11 July.